Bull!

The judge has blinders on is he doesn’t see the harm it is doing to us.
Kansas judge rules keeping biological sex on IDs does not harm transgender people

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach called the ruling 'a victory' for 'common sense'
Fox News
By Jamie Joseph
March 12, 2024

A Kansas judge ruled in favor of the state's conservative attorney general on Monday and determined that prohibiting sex changes on state IDs and driver's licenses does not violate the rights of individuals who identify as transgender.

In a memorandum, District Judge Teresa Watson kept in place an existing ruling she previously made in July 2023 to prohibit the Department of Revenue from allowing transgender individuals to change their biological sex on ID cards.

Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach first sued Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly in 2023 after a law passed by the legislature suspended sex changes on ID cards. Kelly vetoed the bill – SB 180 – sparking the lawsuit. The court then issued a temporary restraining order.

"This decision is a victory for the rule of law and common sense," Kobach said in a statement. "The Legislature wisely stated that state agencies should record biological sex at birth, and today the court held that the meaning of the law is clear."

In an article by NBC News they write,

The Kansas law was part of a wave of measures from GOP-controlled Legislatures across the U.S. to roll back transgender rights. Montana, North Dakota and Tennessee also enacted laws defining man and woman, and Republican governors issued executive orders in Nebraska and Oklahoma, where nonbinary teenager Nex Benedict was bullied and died after a fight in a girls bathroom at a school. Similar measures have been proposed in at least 13 other states.

The Kansas law doesn’t mention driver’s licenses or birth certificates but says for the purposes of any state law or regulation, a person’s sex is “either male or female,” based on their “biological reproductive system” identified at birth. Watson ruled that the law’s language is clear and “there are no exceptions.”

It is based on an outdated theory that gender is based only on outward appearance and chromosomes. And it totally ignores intersex people.

Saying that there is no harm in having your documents not showing your true gender is false, the harm it does is it keeps us from getting jobs, it questions out ability to get loans and financial aid, it causes us to be discriminated and harassed. I don’t keep track of the numbers of times that I have been carded going into a bar… a 70+ year old being carded! How many seventy year olds get cared? They just wanted to see the gender on my driver license and can you imagines the harassment if it showed my gender assigned at birth?

Yes judge, it does harm us!

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President Biden had this to say about the death of Nex Benedict,

Joe Biden mourns death of Nex Benedict, nonbinary teen who died by suicide

USA Today

By Michael Collins

March 14, 2024

President Joe Biden mourned on Thursday a nonbinary Oklahoma teenager whose death by suicide after a school fight sparked widespread outrage and calls for change.

Biden said in a statement that he and first lady Jill Biden were heartbroken by the death of Nex Benedict, who was pronounced dead Feb. 8, one day after being injured in an altercation inside an Owasso High School bathroom. A state medical examiner said Wednesday said the 16-year-old died of suicide.

“Every young person deserves to have the fundamental right and freedom to be who they are and feel safe and supported at school and in their communities,” Biden said. “Nex Benedict, a kid who just wanted to be accepted, should still be here with us today.

Nex’s death raised questions about the issue of bullying and whether the school district was doing enough to protect students subjected to harassment. Nex, who used the pronouns he, him, they and them, had been bullied in the past over their gender identity. Police are investigating what led to the fight in the school bathroom, including whether the teen was targeted in an act of gender-based violence.

A summary autopsy report concluded Nex died of toxicity from diphenhydramine, an antihistamine, and fluoxetine, an anti-depression medication. A full autopsy report is due soon.

In his statement, Biden described nonbinary and transgender people as “some of the bravest Americans I know.” But, he said, “nobody should have to be brave just to be themselves.”

Why can't we all get along together in peace?